Sources
Bibliography
The reading behind The Integral of Life — approximately 200 works across 9 subject groups. Grouped by field, the way a library is — a book belongs to a discipline. The papers are grouped the other way, by where each one bears on the argument. Titles link to their Goodreads page. Each carries a stable index code; groups can be closed.
Philosophy of Identity and Mind31
- PH-15 Understanding Sartre: Existentialism Is a Humanism
- PH-19 Consciousness Explained
- PH-20 From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
- PH-14 Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction
- PH-31 The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
- PH-24 The History of Philosophy
- PH-25 The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
- PH-29 Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- PH-09 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- PH-27 76 Fallacies
- PH-12 The Prince
- PH-02 The Essays: A Selection
- PH-07 The Sovereignty of Good
- PH-28 Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain
- PH-21 Reasons and Persons
- PH-04 Pensées
- PH-08 The Emperor's New Mind
- PH-26 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- PH-22 A Theory of Justice (Revised Edition)
- PH-06 Oneself as Another
- PH-05 Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World
- PH-03 The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- PH-01 The Order of Time
- PH-30 On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy
- PH-16 Being and Nothingness
- PH-10 The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
- PH-13 The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
- PH-11 Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers
- PH-32 Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
- PH-33 The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
- PH-18 Process and Reality (Corrected Edition)
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science22
- NE-16 Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
- NE-17 How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
- NE-11 Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
- NE-14 The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
- NE-15 Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
- NE-23 Natural Intelligence & the Logic of Consciousness
- NE-03 Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
- NE-19 Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains
- NE-20 A Day in the Life of the Brain
- NE-06 Music, Evolution, and the Harmony of Souls
- NE-12 Emotions, Learning, and the Brain
- NE-01 In Search of Now: The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment
- NE-13 The Mind-Gut Connection
- NE-07 The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
- NE-10 Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
- NE-18 The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
- NE-21 A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness
- NE-02 Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
- NE-08 Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
- NE-09 30-Second Brain
- NE-05 The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
- NE-04 The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines
Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology29
- EV-29 Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
- EV-13 The Meme Machine
- EV-25 Culture and the Evolutionary Process
- EV-19 Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- EV-20 Why Evolution Is True
- EV-22 Primate Change: How the World We Made Is Remaking Us
- EV-26 The Selfish Gene
- EV-01 Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
- EV-23 The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
- EV-16 Guns, Germs and Steel
- EV-07 Origins of the Modern Mind
- EV-06 The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
- EV-09 Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
- EV-10 Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
- EV-12 The Secret of Our Success
- EV-27 Man in the Modern World
- EV-21 The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- EV-04 The Knowledge Gene
- EV-18 Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
- EV-11 Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness
- EV-08 The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body
- EV-28 A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
- EV-14 The Better Angels of Our Nature
- EV-15 Enlightenment Now
- EV-02 Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
- EV-03 The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origins of Language
- EV-24 Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach
- EV-05 A Natural History of Human Thinking
- EV-17 The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are
Psychology and Psychiatry15
- PS-13 Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond
- PS-08 The Essential Jean Piaget
- PS-06 Cognitive Development: A Guide to Piagetian Psychology
- PS-11 The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know
- PS-09 Attachment and Loss, Volume 1: Attachment
- PS-01 Peak: How All of Us Can Achieve Extraordinary Things
- PS-14 Overcoming Depression: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques
- PS-02 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- PS-12 Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
- PS-10 Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
- PS-05 The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development
- PS-16 The Stories We Live By: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self
- PS-03 Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them
- PS-17 Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress
- PS-04 Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy
History and Civilisation40
- HI-35 The Middle Ages: A Brief History
- HI-11 Australia: A History
- HI-15 A Short History of the World
- HI-14 A History of the World in 12 Maps
- HI-32 Lincoln in His Own Time
- HI-38 How Music Works
- HI-21 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
- HI-20 The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
- HI-16 The Strange Death of Liberal England 1910-1914
- HI-41 Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- HI-23 Chinese Statecraft in a Changing World
- HI-39 The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa
- HI-24 Civilization: The West and the Rest
- HI-22 Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
- HI-04 The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- HI-36 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- HI-01 The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
- HI-06 The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
- HI-07 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- HI-42 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- HI-43 Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- HI-10 The Great Empires of the Ancient World
- HI-28 The Science of Abolition
- HI-08 Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
- HI-09 In the Shadow of the Sword
- HI-29 Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
- HI-25 The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
- HI-26 River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
- HI-30 China: A History
- HI-02 Babylon
- HI-03 Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
- HI-05 The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
- HI-34 A History of the World in 100 Objects
- HI-27 Killing for Country: A Family Story
- HI-31 From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
- HI-18 Jerusalem: The Biography
- HI-37 100 Ideas That Changed the World
- HI-33 Mao: The Real Story
- HI-13 Culture: A New World History
- HI-17 The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BCE-1492 CE
Economics and Institutions20
- EC-06 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
- EC-16 The Bitcoin Standard
- EC-15 Values: An Economist's Guide to Everything That Matters
- EC-03 Capitalism and Its Critics
- EC-18 Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
- EC-04 What Would Adam Smith Make of Modern Australia?
- EC-01 Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
- EC-13 The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
- EC-07 A Little History of Economics
- EC-19 The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
- EC-10 The Communist Manifesto
- EC-11 Money: A Story of Humanity
- EC-12 A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
- EC-08 A Summary and Critique of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- EC-09 Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- EC-02 The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
- EC-14 What Has Government Done to Our Money?
- EC-17 Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
- EC-05 The Making of Modern Economics
- EC-20 Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering17
- MP-12 Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity
- MP-14 Forgotten Calculus
- MP-08 Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- MP-02 Forces of Nature
- MP-03 Human Universe
- MP-18 The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
- MP-15 CK-12 21st Century Physics FlexBook
- MP-05 The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- MP-10 Complex Variables and the Laplace Transform for Engineers
- MP-13 Essentials of Game Theory
- MP-04 Integral Transforms for Artificial Intelligence
- MP-16 Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space
- MP-06 What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
- MP-01 Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence
- MP-07 Scale
- MP-09 The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
- MP-11 The Outer Limits of Reason
Politics, Society and Geopolitics13
- PO-02 The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
- PO-22 The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
- PO-01 Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction
- PO-15 China's Second Continent
- PO-14 Thank You for Being Late
- PO-23 Liberalism and Its Discontents
- PO-21 The Laws of Thought
- PO-11 Red Zone: China's Challenge and Australia's Future
- PO-16 The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia
- PO-13 Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
- PO-08 The Return of Great Power Rivalry
- PO-07 The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
- PO-06 Vietnam: Asia's Rising Star
Contemplative and Spiritual10
- CS-04 Meditations
- CS-14 Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- CS-11 The Tao of Physics
- CS-02 The Power of Myth
- CS-03 Letters from a Stoic
- CS-01 Walden
- CS-08 The Power of Now
- CS-07 Why Buddhism Is True
- CS-09 Man’s Search for Meaning
- CS-10 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich